Ten Tribes Studies (1 September 2015, 17 Elul 5775)
Contents:
1. New Video Clip. Yair in the Bible
2. New Article. Hebrew Britain. PTOLEMY ON THE BRITISH ISLES
3. Weekly Torah Portion. Ki Tavo
Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8
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1. New Video Clip. Yair in the Bible
Duration: 25.04 minutes
Yair in the Bible is the name given to three distinct personalities all of whom shared a connection to the Tribe of Manasseh. The Assyrians referred to the descendants of Yair as the IARI. We find this name and pattern of relationships repeated in the figure of Iar and the Iari in Irish Mythology and place-names.
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2. New Article. Hebrew Britain
PTOLEMY ON THE BRITISH ISLES
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/secular/ptolbrit.html
Extracts:
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 - c. 170 CE) was a native of Alexandria in Egypt....
Ptolemy's Map of Britain shows the Tribal situation in the Celtic era but is not all-inclusive. Other groups not mentioned by Ptolemy are known to have been in Britain according to Roman and later Celtic accounts though at all events Ptolemy's description is, on the whole, the best available....
.... The name Lugi is based on a word-root connoting "union" which has the same meaning as "Heber" [Cheber] from the Tribe of Asher (Genesis 46:17). This is a phenomenon that repeats itself. We will often find different peoples from one particular Tribe having been in the same general area, i.e. having come one after the other to the same places, even though they belonged to different cultural bodies (e.g. one was Celtic, the other Germanic-speaking) and there had been no contact between each other.
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3. Weekly Torah Portion. Ki Tavo
Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8
http://www.britam.org/deuteronomy/7citovo.html
Extracts:
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT THE GREAT TRUMPET SHALL BE BLOWN, AND THEY SHALL COME WHICH WERE READY TO PERISH (Hebrew: 'Ovdim' also translatable as 'they who were lost'?) IN THE LAND OF ASSYRIA (i.e. LTTs), AND THE OUTCASTS (i.e. Jewish Captives) IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOLY MOUNT AT JERUSALEM [Isaiah 27:13].
WHICH WERE READY TO PERISH [Hebrew: Ovdim = were lost, or in the process of getting lost, or wandering] IN THE LAND OF ASSYRIA [i.e. the LTTs], AND THE OUTCASTS [i.e. the descendants of Captive Jews] IN THE LAND OF EGYPT.
A SYRIAN READY TO PERISH [or "A Wandering Arami"] WAS MY FATHER...
Arami meant Syrian. The Israelites and Judaeans were also known as "Arami" to foreigners. Aram meant Syria but the term could also be used to encompass Israel.
Jewish mercenaries stationed in Egypt under the Persians, for instance, were referred to as "Arami" by the Persians.
We identify the Lost Ten Tribes with a portion of the Scythians who were also known as Sacae.
Pliny, the Roman geographer, reported that the Scythian Sacae had originally been known as "Arami" .
Pliny (77 CE) b: VI. XIX. states :
"Beyond [the Syr Darya, which the Scythians call the Silis] are some tribes of Scythians. To these the Persians have given the general name of Sacae, from the tribe nearest to Persia, but old writers call them the Aramii".
Here we have it. The Scythians or Sacae were originally known as Aramii. This means they wewre either Aramaeans (from Syria) or Israelites!! Israelites could also be referred to as Aramii.
From the Scythian Sacae emerged the Anglo-Saxons and related peoples. It is interesting that the term "Scot" is a form of "Scyth" and the Scots interpreted their name to mean "Wanderer" which is also one of the connotations of the word "Hebrew".
Amongst the Celts of Britain and Gaul there was a god named Aram.
Apart from giving the Tithe for the Poor the males (at least) of the family would still be required to go up to Jerusalem three times a year. In Jerusalem they would eat any of the Second Tithe that was left over from previous years (grain last a long time) as well as ordinary produce.
The seventh Year (Shemittah) is the Sabbatical Year in which no agricultural work goes on, the only agricultural produce available (apart from that stored up from previous years) is that which grows of itself. No private property rights over the agricultural produce that does grow of itself is practiced.
[Deuteronomy 27:22] CURSED BE HE THAT LIETH WITH HIS SISTER, THE DAUGHTER OF HIS FATHER, OR THE DAUGHTER OF HIS MOTHER. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN.
Most prostitutes in western societies were the victims of child abuse, usually incest.
When you do something that is wrong it usually does end "there" but carries on and has an echoing effect of great proportions.
So too, when someone does a good deed it is amplified and often has other good effects elsewhere.
[Deuteronomy 28:6] BLESSED SHALT THOU BE WHEN THOU COMEST IN, AND BLESSED SHALT THOU BE WHEN THOU GOEST OUT.
You and your children will be blessed at the beginning of your lives and at their end. You will begin a day with the blessing of the Almighty and end it with even greater blessing. This happens. We know it does. We also know that it can also happen to us but in many cases will not do so probably because we have not kept to the straight and narrow.